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Ocelot II

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35. I don't think the MAGA cult is transferrable.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 09:57 AM
Aug 2025

Typically, personality cults survive only when they become generational (as with the Kims in North Korea). Trump hasn't succeeded (yet!) in appointing Uday/Qusay (or Beavis/Butthead, whichever you prefer) to a putatively inheritable position, and even if he did, I doubt that either of those two degenerate nincompoops could take over MAGA for long. The arrogant but feckless Vice President, he of the furniture fetish memes that won't go away, isn't a member of the cursed Trump tribe, and is even more anti-charismatic than Dear Leader's semi-sentient crotch-fruit. MAGA are by definition authoritarian followers: insular, fearful, prejudiced and credulous, desperate for an apex predator "winner" to lead and protect them. Vladimir Futon is not that. He's just a mean, snarky little man with a lot of attitude and not much else. When Trump is gone - and may that be soon - I think the GOP will fracture as it tries to find a leader to which the MAGA masses will attach themselves like so many lampreys, but there aren't any of those because they've all transformed themselves into obedient, zombified acolytes of the One True Trump. We'll see something like scorpions rattling around in a jar trying to sting each other to death while the big money tries to figure out what to do with itself.

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Metaphorically, there will be blood on the floor in the Republicon caucus. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #1
I am guessing the commemorative pin will Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 #2
Some magats are so firmly attached to Taco that they may consider sati for themselves. dedl67 Aug 2025 #3
Tea Party II Abstractartist Aug 2025 #4
Congress will have another division besides Republican-Democrat bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #5
They will support V simply because mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #6
And their handlers will tell them to or else. Biophilic Aug 2025 #12
I think it's a moot point because I don't see him dying over the next three years. Feel Good Inc Aug 2025 #7
+1. Like most tyrants, he will expire naturally of old age in extreme luxury and comfort dalton99a Aug 2025 #43
The figurehead is replaceable. TommyT139 Aug 2025 #8
Shady Vance ._. Aug 2025 #9
Agreed. Dulcinea Aug 2025 #48
GQP are trained, brainwashed, passed the purity test....................... Lovie777 Aug 2025 #10
Just like with Elvis, there'll be a Trump impersonator on every corner. surfered Aug 2025 #11
If, as many of us suspect, that MAGA is a cult of personality, it's questionable that it allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #13
I tend to believe cults of personality are dependent on The One. Torchlight Aug 2025 #14
Nobody fears Vance the way they fear Trump Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #15
My 2 cents... JPK Aug 2025 #16
Gross (but no) mr715 Aug 2025 #31
My crystal ball sees Greg Abbott as the replacement dictator.... Thunderbeast Aug 2025 #17
Yep, Abbott has been screwing up Texas and still get reelected uponit7771 Aug 2025 #19
Abbott has no charisma and just displays that "push me into the ocean" look madinmaryland Aug 2025 #45
Optics mr715 Aug 2025 #29
If he has the same Epstein list Pedoprez does they'll do whatever he says uponit7771 Aug 2025 #18
Yep - Chop Shop 'Murca remains open with a President Vance hatrack Aug 2025 #20
Mostly. carpetbagger Aug 2025 #21
They'll have a self-immolating battle for leadership. tinrobot Aug 2025 #22
I think Vance will be less likely to have the cult support so Congress JI7 Aug 2025 #23
BINGO Skittles Aug 2025 #46
Karma, get busy! ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2025 #24
Vance doesn't have his own cult of personality and comradebillyboy Aug 2025 #25
They'll follow him like a herd of cats. marble falls Aug 2025 #26
They'll fall in line MaineBlueBear Aug 2025 #27
Will Project 2025 continue via MAGA, or BigmanPigman Aug 2025 #28
Vance doesnt have much charisma Johonny Aug 2025 #30
This. He won't hold up under the kind of pressure it would take to keep up the facade that R policies are helping Iris Aug 2025 #38
He will be placed out Traildogbob Aug 2025 #32
Miller's so raging full of himself and his hateful success that he may run. nt allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #41
Yes, because that's what they're paid to do. yardwork Aug 2025 #33
BLOTUS will survive the term. CentralMass Aug 2025 #34
I don't think the MAGA cult is transferrable. Ocelot II Aug 2025 #35
In 2015 markodochartaigh Aug 2025 #36
Putin will already be in full control by then so it won't matter. hamsterjill Aug 2025 #37
The oligarchy (project 2025) will remain in full control, just as they are now. GoodRaisin Aug 2025 #39
If Pootie tells them to support Vance, yes they will do exactly that FakeNoose Aug 2025 #40
Although hampered by Trump PATRICK Aug 2025 #42
They'll shatter to pieces mr715 Aug 2025 #44
When it happens D_Master81 Aug 2025 #47
No. H2O Man Aug 2025 #49
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